A system and method for modeling and dynamically deploying services into a distributed networking architecture

Abstract

The present invention describes a new system and method for modeling and dynamically deploying services into a distributed networking architecture, especially in a service-oriented architecture. The Service Container being part of distributed networking architecture exposes its functionality as services. It provides a registration service for deploying Service Descriptions. Having created a new Service Description in any declarative description language (i.e. a description of a (stateful) service e.g. a stateful Web Service), the Description Provider invokes the registration service at the Service Container that allows to register (i.e. deploy) that new Service Description during runtime without restarting Service Container. The Service Container is responsible to analyze and check the submitted new Service Description for validity, to store the Service Description and to make it available for interested services consumers for instantiation. If a new service has been successfully registered, a new Service Interface for accessing that new service is automatically created by the Service Container. Interested services consumers may query the hosting environment for the available services being hosted and to subsequently instantiate a new service. A Service Consumer may then invoke any exposed service operation on a given Service Instance which generally follows a request response pattern.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of distributed network architectures, and more particularly to a method for modeling and dynamically deploying services in distributed network architectures, particularly in service containers as part of a service-oriented architecture The system and method of , wherein the service-oriented architecture consists of the following parts: resource providers, service consumers, and service containers (ie, host environments) that provide services to service consumers. Background technique [0002] Today's IT environment has been shaped by the need to provide means of interoperability between various systems and applications. Most of these systems and applications potentially maintain state information. Due to the stateful characteristics of the system and the application, the system and the application can be regarded as resources. In order to provide homogeneous access to the state of such resources, in a servic...

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Problems solved by technology

For each new service, all development steps are required (during build time), which also makes composition of existing services very rigid and intractable

[0008] The problem with the prior art approach is as follows: The static development and deployment process makes dynamic service development and compositing of existing services into more complex composite services very rigid and intractable

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